you know that, mr. speaker. when we talk about the tax dollars that we take in, the priorities are, that tells us what our values are. when we talk about how much money we're going to take from the american people, who will pay more, who are the folks that will have to pay less, we talk about our values. so every single year the president has put his value statement forward. now that distinguishes him from the body that has disappointed me so terribly much, mr. speaker, in my two short years in this congress and that's the united states senate. in the two years i've been here i haven't seen a senate budget and i thought that was odd until i talked to colleagues who have been here longer. they said, we haven't seen one in almost four years. no budget in four years. no statement of values. no statement of solutions. no recognition that there's a problem and then a proposal to make it better. but what i have here, mr. speaker, is a chart that represents the president's budget from february. as he's done faithfully